From Here to Eternity

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift
Year:  1953 Running Time:  118 mins Rating: 4 out of 5 Certificate PG
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A memorable roll in the surf between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr almost outshone the eight Oscars won by Best Director Fred Zinnemann's captivating WWII-set Best Picture. On a Hawaiian US Army base prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Best Actor Lancaster is the sergeant who falls for fellow officer's wife Kerr. Meanwhile, misfit private Montgomery Clift has a personal battle on his hands while Frank Sinatra (Best Supporting Actor) gets mixed up with goodtime girl Donna Reed (Best Supporting Actress). With every performance doing justice to the romantic, tragic and brutal story, Zinnemann and his cast created one of the most powerful dramas of the 50s - if not of all time.

Review

Its eight Oscars, (then) scorching love scenes between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr and raw, shocking portrayal of the oppression and torments of American Army life at the time of Pearl Harbor, made this film a sure box-office hit.

It also remade Frank Sinatra's career when he won one of the Oscars as the ill-fated Private Maggio. Donna Reed (another Oscar-winner), Montgomery Clift, Ernest Borgnine (memorable as the sadistic sergeant who goes gunning for Maggio), Claude Akins, Mickey Shaughnessy and Jack Warden all snapped up early career chances.

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